Post A Pic Of Your Pc Here :)
- Thread starter jancz3rt
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Awesome mate
Whats the specs of that beauty?
I have a spare AMD rig...doing nothing,I would realy like to make use of it but cant think of anything
Ideas?
It's a 1.7 ghz Pentium 4 machine with 2 whole gigs of ram, a 40 gig hdd and 128MB nvidia GeForce FX 5200 card.
I've also put a 300 gig hard disk that I have all my music and videos on that I used in my good rig.
It's running XP Pro.
In the past this has been my PC that I've used to try stuff out on, I've used it as a Linux file server and domain controller and I had plans to make a HTPC out of it too.
The linux server one was good fun so that may be an idea for your AMD rig.
But what could it actualy serve if i did set it up as a server?
It has 1.25Gb of ram,2ghz Sempron...120gb hard drive,Radeon 9600 pro
mine had 768 megs of ram when I had it serving. It was quite handy to have a server so I could get at any of my files from any computer. It's useful if you have a HTPC or laptop or something like that.
Well i do have a Laptop...But all of my data such as music,setup files etc are all on my External 500gb hard drive,so i can just transfer files between laptop/pc from that so there realy wouldnt be any point in me setting the old pc up to do that....if thats what you mean.
People say that you dont need a great pc to host games on,I could host a server for cod4/5 i think but then you run into limits from the isp i think...then you have the increased elec bills (especialy if its on 24/7)
funkysnair
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i think if anything a home server would be the best route, i do think a gaming server would be out of your spec, you do need a decent spec pc to have as a game server!!
atleast decent ram and cpu
atleast decent ram and cpu
kazkepox
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Well i do have a Laptop...But all of my data such as music,setup files etc are all on my External 500gb hard drive,so i can just transfer files between laptop/pc from that so there realy wouldnt be any point in me setting the old pc up to do that....if thats what you mean.
People say that you dont need a great pc to host games on,I could host a server for cod4/5 i think but then you run into limits from the isp i think...then you have the increased elec bills (especialy if its on 24/7)
what about a folding computer?
Well.....i dont think the Sempron 2800+ would do all that good at folding
It would have to be switched on all the time,again power bills.
Its not my house i live in,so even though i obviusly pay my board to live here....its not right just to have it switched on all the while pumping up those bills.
funkysnair
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Well.....i dont think the Sempron 2800+ would do all that good at folding
It would have to be switched on all the time,again power bills.
Its not my house i live in,so even though i obviusly pay my board to live here....its not right just to have it switched on all the while pumping up those bills.
not just the spec of the pc for folding but the amount of time its online
and for gaming server its your upload for a gaming, mine is 1.6meg and it would do for a 10player server but is it worth it?
I once read it costs about 10 quid a month to power a pc 24/7.
Plus you don't need it on all the time, just power it on in the morning and off at night. They can also be useful if you download a lot so you can leave stuff going instead of leaving your main machine on for it. It can also be useful for backups. When I had my server all my data was nicely backed up so if I deleted anything I could get it back quickly and easily.
Plus you don't need it on all the time, just power it on in the morning and off at night. They can also be useful if you download a lot so you can leave stuff going instead of leaving your main machine on for it. It can also be useful for backups. When I had my server all my data was nicely backed up so if I deleted anything I could get it back quickly and easily.
funkysnair
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thats not too bad really thats like £2.50 a week i could live with that myself, thought it would have been more
Aastii
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After a hard disk failure has put my main rig temporarily out of action I thought I'd share my current (spare) rig with you.
The front.
i love your case!!
Isn't it beautiful!?! I had my main rig in that case for a while before I got a niceish one.
I got given it a while a go with another (but broken) pentium 4 system inside.
As you may guess from the tape drive it used to be a server before I got it and emptied it.
Aastii
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if i knew where to get one, i would. It is large, moddable and looks so damn good. It is the classic computer chassis with the white/grey plastic and square, dimpled shape... I love it
if i knew where to get one, i would. It is large, moddable and looks so damn good. It is the classic computer chassis with the white/grey plastic and square, dimpled shape... I love it
I do quite like the look of it if I'm honest, but it's hideous to build in, half of the standoffs are screwless peg things which are awful to get in and don't stay in properly and you've got no chance of cable management. Although it could possibly be modded to fix that.
Some updated pics of my case:
And I've moved to college (New Jersey Institute of Technology) and I brought my desktop with me.
And I've moved to college (New Jersey Institute of Technology) and I brought my desktop with me.
